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Business Keeps Going UpHumorous illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing Gran pop the orang utan having to saw a hole in the ceiling to accommodate his ever growing sales projection
Monaco Grand Prix Poster - 1957Monaco Grand Prix Poster - 19th May 1957. The race was won by Juan Manuel Fangio in a Maserati. 1957
RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, detail of mural, 1947-1948. MEXICO. Mexico City. Diego Rivera Web Museum. Central detail. Fresco on portable pannels
Old English Proverbs and Sayings by Pauline BaynesA staggering 149 sayings illustrated on one page by Pauline Baynes, all played out by a huge cast of medieval characters
RIVERA, Diego. Man, Controller ofRIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Man, Controller of the Universe. 1934. Right detail. Mexican Mural Painting. Fresco. MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City. Fine Arts Palace
Konrad Adenauer Campaign PosterCampaign poster for poster German statesman, Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democratic Union (CDU Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) party during the 1957 elections
CITROEN ID. 19, 1957The classic Citroen DS car launched in 1955, at this time known as the Citroen ID.19
Christian Dior sketching a fashion design, 1948In 1947 Christian Dior (1905-1957) created a sensational collection labelled the New Look. His designs centred around gowns with an 18 inch waist, which focused attention on the bust and hips
Bristol Britannia 102 G-ANBA BOAC Singapore 1957Bristol Britannia 102 G-ANBA of BOAC at Singapore on 9 December 1957 Date: 1957
RMS Queen Mary, Cunard Line cruise ship. Date: 1957
RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Totonaca Civilization. 1950. MEXICO. Mexico City. National Palace. Mexican Mural Painting. Fresco
West Indies Cricket Team - 1957 Tour - SignaturesThe West Indies Cricket Team - Tour of England 1957. Featured are the brilliant (Sir) Garfield (Gary) Sobers, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, (Sir) Wesley Winfield Hall and Sonny Ramadhin
Gardener at Pensax Court, Worcestershire. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd
Tank Battle on the Somme British MkIV & German A7V tanks inTank Battle on the Somme. British MkIV & German A7V tanks in action. Date: circa 1918
Dennis Brain / PhotoDENNIS BRAIN Musician: legendary French horn player
HMCS Bonaventure CVL-22Royal Canadian Navy - HMCS Bonaventure CVL-22, a Majestic-class aircraft carrier seen in March 1957. (Originally ordered for the Royal Navy as HMS Powerful) Date: 1957
LCC-LFB Leyland Metz 100 foot turntable ladderLambeths (D61) turntable ladder at its base station, displayed in the Brigade headquarters drill yard. The hose line, when the TL is used as a water tower
Grassmoor colliery and training centre, MiningGrassmoor, North Derbyshire Area Training Centre for miners was opened in 1957. A group of trainees in shorts run across a field, the colliery sits on the hillside above
Bestwood Colliery, near Bestwood Village, NottinghamshireView of Bestwood Colliery, near Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire. The colliery closed in 1967, but the surviving headstock and winding house, and vertical steam engine of 1873
The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, book coverTHE FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY, a book by Donald E Keyhoe. The cover shows two airline pilots sighting a flying saucer through their cockpit window
To the Public DangerHumorous scene by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing policemen chasing a gentleman in a futuristic flying machine along a main road. Satire on flying which was in infancy
Hawker Sea Hawks parked adjoining the angled deck area on board HMS Ark Royal during operations in the Mediterranean. March 1957. Date: 1957
Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK163 fitted with a NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957
1957 nuclear test: Fall-outFallout: The sinister and prolonged after-effect of nuclear explosions: a drawing illustrating some characteristics of this haunting phenomenon.An illustration by special Illustrated London News
Eric Coates / K Collins PhERIC COATES English composer
Sacha Guitry / JeidelsSACHA GUITRY French actor and playwright, lighting a cigarette
Jean SibeliusJEAN SIBELIUS Finnish musician in 1921
Erich Wolfgang KorngoldERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD American composer and conductor, born in Austria (now Czech.)
Poster, Map of Royal Britain. 1957
RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Zapotec Civilization. 1947. Mural Pre-Hispanic Mexico and Colony in the corridor of the north wall. Detail
Nato Headquarters, Izmir, Turkey - now the Allied Air Component Command Headquarters Date: 1957
The West Indies Cricket Team - Tour of England 1957. Featured are the brilliant (Sir) Garfield (Gary) Sobers, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, (Sir) Wesley Winfield Hall and Sonny Ramadhin
Designer Ray Stits Kneeling by and Test-Pilot Bob ( Robe?Designer Ray Stits Kneeling by and Test-Pilot Bob ( Robert ) Starr the Stits SA-2A Sky Baby Worlds Smallest Aircraft World-Record Record-Breaker Experimental Homebuilt Unusual-Design in 1952 Date
RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). History of Mexico: from the Conquest to 1930. 1929 - 1931. Detail of the central wall with scenes
Boeing Stratocruiser G-AKGK BOAC, London AirportThe instantly recognisable fuselage shape of the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. Canopus was one of the more famous BOAC Stratocruisers operating on the between 1950 and 1959
The first Fairey Delta 2 WG774 in 1957 markingsThe first Fairey Delta 2, WG774, in 1957 markings as a showcase to the British aircraft industry. Date: 1957
Queen Elizabeth II North America visit - with Nixon, 1957The royal visit to North America, 1957. Vice president Nixon points out the surrounding landmarks on the steps of the Capitol to Queen Elizabeth II, who looks in the opposite direction. Mrs
Going with a SwingHumorous illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing Gran pop the orang utan swinging on vines. Entitled Gran pop travels a la Carte
Poster for the 15th Monaco Grand Prix on the 19th May 1957
Donald E KeyhoeDirector of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena [NICAP], and author of three books on flying saucers
Villas Boas AbductionBrazilian farmer Antonio Villas Boas, abducted while working at night, is given a medical examination by investigators
Three Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineer craftsmenPhotograph of three Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineer craftsmen repairing the engine of an A Squadron, 15/19th Kings Royal Hussars Saracen Armoured Personnel Carrier, Malaya
Martha of NorwayMARTHA, CROWN PRINCESS OF NORWAY Daughter of Princess Charles of Sweden, she married Crown Prince Olav of Norway in 1929. She died 3 years before Olav became King of Norway in 1957. Date: 1901 - 1954
HMS Warrior R31Royal Navy - HMS Warrior R31, a Colossus-class light aircraft carrier, in March 1946. (Warrior was loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy from 1946 to 1948 as HMCS Warrior)
Beagle A. 61 Terrier 2 G-ASACBeagle A.61 Terrier 2 G-ASAC (msn B.606, ex WE587), of the Airways Aero Club. Auster converted a number of ex- Army aircraft which became the Auster 6B
Chrysler Jupiter-C sounding rocket at Cape Canaveral on 8 August 1957 prior to the third and final sub-orbital test of a re-entry nose cone
A Vintage Season for DebutantesPage from The Tatler by the magazines social editor, Jennifer, listing some of the events taking place during the Season of 1957, together with portraits of two debutantes
Natasha Parry on Tatler cover 1957Actress Natasha Parry, wife of director Peter Brook, featured on the front cover of The Tatler and Bystander magazine, 20 November 1957
Turkey - Istanbul - Princes Islands (Prinkipo) - BuyukadaConstantinople - Princes Islands - Buyukada - the largest of the nine islands (a place of exile for the Byzantine Empresses). Today, the rich inhabitants of Istanbul have their summerhouses here
Sputnik I prior to its launch on 9 October 1957. Date: 1957
LFB Dennis dual-purpose pump, Lambeth HQLambeths (D61) pump at its base station, on display in Brigade headquarters drill yard. Side mounted pump outlets together with hose-reel tubing and two hook ladders can be seen
LCC-LFB vehicle repair workshops, Lambeth HQThe London Fire Brigade vehicle repair and maintenance workshops located within the extensive headquarters complex in Lambeth, SE1
Ufos / ConstableATMOSPHERIC UFO Amoeba no 1 - infra-red photograph of a living UFO taken over the California desert Date: 25 August 1957
Utrillo and GuitryMAURICE UTRILLO French painter, best known for his Parisian street scenes, with the actor and dramatist SACHA GUITRY (1885-1957), in Montmartre, Paris, 1955
Salcombe, DevonDrinking in a pub garden, or the exterior seating area for a Hotel Bar at Salcombe, Devon. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd
Abandoned rural branch line signal box, Worcestershire, England. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd
Aga Khan Iii / India / Vf 04AGA KHAN III originally SULTAN SIR MOHAMMED SHAH Indian Muslim leader, took part in conferences, including League of Nations
Army patrol in Malaya, 1957Photograph of an Army patrol in Malaya, 1957.From an album of photographs covering military and social aspects of army life in Malaya, 1957. Date: 1957
Ejmd Plunkett / DunsanyEDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th BARON OF DUNSANY, LORD DUNSANY Irish writer Date: 1878 - 1957
Sir Godfrey Baring, Vanity Fair, SpySIR GODFREY BARING, 1st Baronet (1871-1957) Liberal Member of Parliament for Barnstaple and the Isle of Wight. Caption: Isle of Wight Date: 1871 - 1957
The Sketch front cover, 1957A model stalks up and down a catwalk in the latest fashions for 1957, watched by a front row of elegant fashion buyers and journalists
Christmas morningColour photograph taken from an advertisement for Midland Bank gift cheques, showing a young boy playing with a toy plane on Christmas morning
Auster J / 5R Alpine, G-APa, belonging to the Automobile ?Auster J/5R Alpine, G-APa, belonging to the Automobile Association at the 1957 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Wisley on 15 September
Lord Rowallan as Chief ScoutLord Rowallan, K.T. K.B.E, M.C. T.D. L.L.D. D.L. As Chief Scout. Date: 1957
Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK162Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK163 fitted with a NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957
A Toscanini / 1936ARTURO TOSCANINI Italian conductor, known for his dynamic style, conducting in 1936
Photograph of Oakwood PH, Eastwood, Essex. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 1956
Advert, Mackintoshs Week-End Chocolate Assortment -- Just look what you find in Week-End. Two shillings and ninepence for a half pound box. 1957
Hawker P. 1121Hawker P.1121 Full-Scale Mock-Up Model in the Hawker Kingston-On-Thames Richmond Road Factory Date: 1957
Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile at Farnborough in 1957. Date: 1957
Avro Shackleton MR.1A WB836Royal Air Force - Avro Shackleton MR.1A WB836, of No.220 Squadron at the Avro factory on Langar airfield. Date: circa 1957
Supermarine Swift F.1 7206M - WK203Royal Air Force - Supermarine Swift F.1 7206M / WK203, at RAF Halton awaiting disposal. This Swift F.1 was allocated to Rolls-Royce for engine development
Fairey Gannet AS.1 XA321Royal Navy - Fairey Gannet AS.1 XA321 (msn F.9213), of 815 Naval Air Squadron, embarked on HMS Ark Royal, seen at an RaeS Garden Party in 1957. Date: 1957
ML Aviation Utility, inflatable utility aircraft Date: circa 1957
Bristol 175 Britannia 102 G-ANBJ (msn 12911), the tenth production Britannia 102, seen in Canada during its demonstration tour of the USA and Canada in August 1957. Date: 1957
Nord 2501 Noratlas 4X-FAQIsraeli Defence Force / Air Force - Nord 2501 Noratlas 4X-FAQ (msn D165), at Blackbushe on 27 October 1957. Date: 1957
Douglas R5D-1 90414United States Marine Corps - Douglas R5D-1 90414 (MSN 27370, ex C-54E-15-DO Skymaster 44-9144) Date: 1957
North American F-86F 24796Philippine Air Force - North American F-86F 24796 (MSN 191-492, ex 52-4796, buzz number FU-796), at Clark Field in December 1957. Date: 1957
Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat 485Royal Thai Air Force - Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat 485, at Don Muang RTAFB, Bangkok. Date: 1957
Bendix Model 52 NX34103 (msn 1) Date: 1957
Beech C-45G Expeditor G-BSZC - 51-11701Beech C-45G Expeditor G-BSZC / 51-11701 (MSN AF-258). Rebuilt April 1952, from AT-7 42-2490 (MSN 4166). Converted to C-45H in 1957. Date: circa 1995
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer 1 VR-OAE (msn 517), of Borneo Airways, outside the Scottish Aviation assembly shed at Prestwick, before delivery
Woman's Day magazine - article on shampooing - 1957Editorial photograph for Woman's Day magazine - article on shampooing - 1957. Date: 1957
Client: Woollands Brothers - Red Grosgrain evening dress - September 26, 1957 Date: 1957
